I love when GWB does stuff like this. He lets something fester and then finally caves, thus getting ALL the bad press from the left on the front end, and then gets scorned on the back end by the right as an appeaser. Sure looks weak.
This is great because he called for both sides to stop all ads at once.
He knows the Left will not stop their ads, so he has nothing to worry about, but he gets credit for calling off the attack dogs. But he did NOT call them off AND all he really did was point out skerry's hypocrisy.
To you. That is why he is our president and you wage war on a keyboard.
He is merely saying the very same thing he said all along - he condemns ALL 527's - not the vets - all (including MOVEON and all the dem ones).
This is not a cave at all. He just said Kerry should be proud of his service (because he did go to Vietnam).
Now - how the press will report it is - Bush condemns the Swift Vet ads.....Bush supports Kerry's service......Bush told the Swift Vets to stop.....
This was really his only option unless he wants to be right in the middle of the fight and he does not. Also, he CAN'T tell them to quit because they are not doing this for him. If he did, the press would report Bush tells his group to quit.
It seems like every move he makes for purely political reasons is poorly calculated. When he sticks up for what he truly believes, he is successful. Bush needs to dump Karl Rove and get some new advisors.
Nope...sure looks "smart"...Bush did a bit of political softball today...took the high ground, and now left Kerry having to deal with the Swifties head on now...he can't run a crying to W anymore...;-)
He knows the swifties won't stop and deep down is probably glad...
The President simply reinterated what he had already said before. Called for all 527 ads to stop, NOT just the Swifties.
They got you with that headline.
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